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by admin on Friday, 13 September 2019 | Comments Off on Waves of lost and found footage | Tags: My Digital BackyardWaves of lost and found footage

Maquette Waves of lost & found footage, in de expo Beek in Beeld 2.0 2019

Maquette Waves of lost & found footage, in de expo Beek in Beeld 2.0 2019

Maquette Waves of lost & found footage, in de expo Beek in Beeld 2.0

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Eerste maquette werktitel ‘The Rising’ 2019

Eesrte maquette werktitel ‘The Rising’ 2019

Eerste maquette werktitel ‘The Rising’ (op schaal) 2019

Eerste maquette werktitel ‘The Rising’ (op schaal) 2019

In the fall of 2018 Artphy invited me, among a group of twelve international artists, to develop an idea for a work in public space, for the upcoming art manifestation Beek in Beeld 2.0. We were asked to respond to the changing landscape and possible future of Westerwolde. This in order to realize a large outdoor exhibition in 2020, spread along the meandering river that crosses the area.

As they already knew I was developing ideas on transforming my drawings from 2D works into 3D, Bergarde Galleries challenged me to make my first work for outdoor. I had some real big ideas, but for the moment I had to stick to a first step on how to translate my drawings into a form that could survive being placed outside.

I started working on this series of drawing during my artist in residence in het ‘Pompgemaal’ Den Helder, from the Mondriaan Fonds. For now, more about this series can be found in my blog (in dutch, sorry) on that working period: Pompgemaal Den Helder 3

Glitch 8, graphite on paper, 45-63 cm, 2014 // Part of collection Prentenkabinet University of Leiden

Glitch 7, graphite on paper, 45-63 cm, 2014 // Part of collection Prentenkabinet University of Leiden

Glitch 6, graphite on paper, 45-63 cm, 2014

Glitch 5, graphite on paper, 110-160cm, 2014

Glitch 4, graphite on paper, 110-140cm, 2014

Glitch 3, graphite on paper, 110-140cm. 2014

Glitch 2, graphite on paper, 110-140cm. 2014

The series Glitches is based on the idea of people losing control over their inventions and that a new world is created by that. These drawings are based on photos that I made from my computer screen, during a walk through an about 16 km wide area in the US on Google Streetview, where there had been a distortion during the process of mapping. The area turned out to look like a combination between a fairytale and a set for a horror movie and you could walk around in it for hours between trees that look like they were melting down and houses that appeared burned or haunted.

by admin on Thursday, 26 June 2014 | Comments Off on Clouds of Paint and Walls of Water | Tags: 2013Clouds of Paint and Walls of Water

Paint 2, graphite on paper, 150-197cm, 2015

Paint 1, graphite on paper, 50-65cm, 2013

C o P/W o W 7, graphite on paper, 110-170cm, 2013

CoP WoW 6, graphite on paper, 110-190cm, 2013

CoP/Wow 5, graphite on paper, 110-130cm, 2013

CoP WoW 4, graphite on paper, 65-50cm, 2013

CoP WoW 3, graphite on paper, 65-50cm, 2013

CoP WoW 2, graphite on paper, 65-50cm, 2013

CoP WoW 1, graphite on paper, 110-90cm, 2013

In the series ‘Clouds of paint and walls of water’ I worked with the idea of our inventions taking over in a more direct way. The series is based on a distortion in my computer that accidentally created 16 new images, by seemingly random putting parts of photos from different files together. I say seemingly random as it seemed, after taking a closer look at the files that there where similarities in color or atmosphere in the parts that were combined. Inspired by these images I started putting parts of photos from different files in my computer together too. Parts that originally didn’t have any connection, but pure by their appearance seemed to match. The clouds are drawn after abstract details of old paintings that I thought looked like skies or clouds. Using these refers also to the idea of make believe, that connects to the idea of a second layer of reality.

This series of drawings is inspired by modern citycenters where videoscreens, billboards and neonsigns scream for attention. The moving images and the giants on the advertisements seem to overrule the people in the streets. Even the architecture is colored by the light from neonsigns.

In these series I show the idea of people losing control over their inventions and that a second layer of reality is taking over.

It shows reflections of skyscrapers in the windows of other skyscrapers. In these reflections the buildings appear in fragmented and more organic forms. They look like beautiful castles up in the sky and could resemble something we long for, but are in fact only mirages that cannot be touched.

by admin on Wednesday, 26 March 2014 | Comments Off on Atoms versus zero’s and ones | Tags: 2011Atoms versus zero’s and ones

We are stardust 2, acrylic and mirror-spraypaint on paper, 196-200cm, 2012

We are stardust 1, graphite on paper, 70-100cm, 2011

We are stardust- sketch 1, graphite on paper, 14-18cm, 2012

Distortion- sketch 1, graphite on paper, 18-24cm, 2012

Distortion, graphite on paper, 193-200cm, 2011

Development and new inventions seem to be of big importance. The world starts to depend more and more on computers. Even our communication starts to rely on extern equipement. To me it seems we are starting to loose contact with our human nature this way.

In ‘Atoms’, I want to show that everything is made out of the same atoms and focus on an image where people are only part of a bigger system and where everything is in balance and connected.

‘Zero’s and ones’ shows the by humans created version of atoms, which resambles the ideas of how we create a second layer of reality and slowly get seperated from our human nature.

Fragments 1, graphite on paper, 50-65cm, 2010 Part of a private collection

Fragments 5, graphite on paper, 50-65cm, 2010

Fragments 6, graphite on paper, 50-65cm, 2010

This series shows the fragmented way of living that appears in our modern zap culture. In the streets of big busy modern cities it seems as if everyone is in a hurry.

People don’t have time to speak to eachother and when they are at one place they are already with their minds at another place. They want to do as much as possible in the time they have affraid to miss out on something, but thereby only experiencing things superficially.

These drawings and paintings are based on movies and photos made in the crowded area’s Shinjuku and Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan.

In this series of drawings and paintings in which I wanted to show the passing of time and time related aspect such as finity and infinity and the relativity of the concept time.

I made photographs with a long schuttertime from my selfmade movies of people in movement. In these images people got blurred, they got transparant and they sometimes seem to appear more then once in one image. These different forms I used to show different aspects of time. The transparent people seemed ghosts from another time and I used them to show the past and idea of finity. Later on when I looked closer at my photos I saw the architecture in the background shine through the transparent persons and when I mixed these forms the people all of a sudden started to look like robots. I used these forms to show an idea of the future and of infinity.